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DD-205 / APD-59 Newman

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons



Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Combat Action Ribbon - China Service Medal (extended)
Second Row - American Campaign Medal - Europe-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (5)
Third Row - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp) - Philippine Liberation Medal (2)
Charles Lawrence Class High-speed Transport
  • Laid down, 8 June 1943, as a Buckley Class Destroyer Escort at Charleston Navy Yard, Charleston S.C.
  • Launched, 9 August 1943
  • Commissioned USS Newman (DE-205), 26 November 1943, LCDR. W. C. Meyer, USNR, in command
  • Converted to a High-speed Transport at Staten Island N.Y. and redesignated (APD-59), 19 September 1944
  • During World War II Newman (APD-59) was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater as flagship for Transportation Division 103 and participated in the following campaigns:
    Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns
    Campaign and Dates Campaign and Dates
    Leyte operation
    Ormoc Bay landings, 7 December 1944     		Consolidation and capture of Southern Philippines
    Palawan Islands landing, Puerta Princessa, 10 March 1945
    Mindanao Island landings
    Zamboanga, 10 March 1945
    Parang landing, 17 April 1945
    Visayan Islands landings
    Talisay, Cebu Island, 26 March 1945
    Luzon operation
    Mindoro landings, 15 December 1944
    Lingayen Gulf landings, 11 January 1945
    San Felipe landing, 29 January 1945     		Borneo operation
    Brunei Bay operation, 10 June 1945
    Balikpapan operation, 1 July 1945
    Manila Bay-Bicol operation
    Grande Island-Subic Bay, 30 January 1945     		.

  • Decommissioned, 18 February 1946, at Green Cove Springs, FL.
  • Berthed in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Florida Group, Green Cove Springs
  • Later moved to Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Texas Group, Orange, TX.
  • Struck from the Naval Register in 1964
  • Final Disposition, sold 16 August 1966, to Boston Metals Co., Baltimore MD. for scrapping
  • Newman (APD-59) earned five battle stars during World War II
    Specifications:
    Displacement 1,400 t.
    Length 306' (oa)
    Beam 36' 10"
    Draft 13' 6" (max)
    Speed 24 kts.
    Range 6,000 nautical miles at 12 kts.
    Complement 186
    Troop Capacity 162
    Boats four LCVP landing craft
    Armament
    one 5"/38 dual purpose gun mount
    three twin 40mm AA gun mounts
    eight single 20mm AA gun mounts
    two depth charge tracks
    Propulsion two GE turbines, (turbo-electric drive), two boilers two shafts, 12,000 shp
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    2007 Annual Reunion of the Ormoc Bay Association
    Place: Hampton Inn, Savannah, GA.
    Date: 21 to 25 October 2007
    Contact: Sec'y-Treas., William M. Dallam
    Address: 117 Tuscarora St., Harrisburg, PA. 17104
    E-mail: Annual Reunion of the Ormoc Bay Association
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